While many may have griped at Argo’s win for Best Picture at the Oscars this year, I still admit that the film was one of my favorites of 2012, so I was happy to see the win.  So, understandably, with the breaking news of Ben Affleck re-teaming with screenwriter Chris Terrio, I am excited for the potential project.

The film in question is an adaptation of the forthcoming book Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution.

The book, written by author Nathaniel Philbrick (In The Heart of the Sea) tells the story of the battle in Boston (of course) which sparked the American Revolution in 1775. It doesn’t hit shelves until April, but you can read the synopsis, courtesy of Amazon, below:

Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord. In June, however, with the city cut off from supplies by a British blockade and Patriot militia poised in siege, skirmishes give way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It would be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists.

Philbrick brings a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story. He finds new characters, and new facets to familiar ones. The real work of choreographing rebellion falls to a thirty-three year old physician named Joseph Warren who emerges as the on-the-ground leader of the Patriot cause and is fated to die at Bunker Hill. Others in the cast include Paul Revere, Warren’s fiancÁ© the poet Mercy Scollay, a newly recruited George Washington, the reluctant British combatant General Thomas Gage and his more bellicose successor William Howe, who leads the three charges at Bunker Hill and presides over the claustrophobic cauldron of a city under siege as both sides play a nervy game of brinkmanship for control.

With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape—geographic and ideological—in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.

This will not serve as Ben Affleck’s next movie as a director, that goes to an adaptation of the novel Live By Night, a prohibition-era crime drama, which he intends to star in as well.

Love him or hate him, you have to respect Affleck for continuing to take creative risks as a director.  Here’s hoping Bunker Hill (and Live By Night) continue his thus far flawless resume as a director.

Source: Deadline